com.gamethesky.make.game
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"description": "A game somebody made in Make the Sky, published into their own repo: a title, a line about it, its look, and one to eight chapters, each one of Game the Sky's engines (a module) on one of its levels (a preset) with its knobs set. Play is decided by the chapters alone. A game is edited in place (the same record, a new version): its board belongs to its way of playing (the chapters' modules, versions, presets and settings), so renaming or restyling it keeps the board, and changing a chapter starts a fresh one. A run pins the version it was played on; a verifier replays it on the game as it stands and takes it only if it replays the same.",
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